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12 Reasons You Should Buy a Wii U in 2022 - Lifehacker
Jan 20, 2022 2 mins, 39 secs
We make the Switch; that’ll be $350.” If it were up to the company, the world would entirely forget about this flop of a console.

Terrible marketing decisions from Nintendo (way too many people thought the Wii U was simply a Wii accessory), coupled with a lack of steady support from developers, doomed the Wii U.

When all is said and done, a console is defined by its library of games.

There are so many great titles to play on Wii U.

Sure, Nintendo has moved many of its Wii U classics over to the Switch so most people can play them for the first time.

While Zelda fans fume over Nintendo’s lack of progress bringing these titles to Switch, I happily play them on my Wii U (although having them portable would be nice...).

Plenty of other fun titles are still Wii U exclusives, such as Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, Yoshi’s Wooly World, Wii Sports Club, and, a personal favorite, Nintendo Land (more on this one later).

Instead, you can play a limited number of retro titles if you subscribe to Nintendo Switch Online, with some games (like N64 titles) locked behind the more expensive tier?

It’s the only Nintendo system that allows you to play every 3D Zelda game, plus most of the ones released on console.

The only console game missing is the Switch remake of Link’s Awakening.

The battery life is...OK, bad, but it’s easy enough to play while plugged into the charger.

It’s a bit like a Switch that can’t leave your house, since you can play any game on the built-in screen, but you can also experience specific gameplay you wouldn’t see on your TV.

Nintendo was in a unique position to turn the Wii U into the ultimate local multiplayer machine, something completely different from all other video game companies in the early aughts.

Nintendo Land, the game included on all 32GB Wii U models, was a bit of a demo disk, offering mini-games based on Nintendo’s biggest franchises.

While many of these games are fun, and gave us some of our first experiences of Nintendo in HD, it’s the multiplayer games that are next level.

The idea that a group of players could see one thing, while one player on the GamePad sees another, could have been utilized for so many different types of games.

The Wii U could’ve been the ultimate party console; instead, it’s the ultimate demo.

The games, however, are a different story.

It helps that many of these titles have been ported to the Switch, so there’s a new (and more expensive) way to play them.

You can run emulators to play any game you want; you can install a mod that lets you use the Wii U as a DVD player; you can even stream titles from your PC directly to your Wii U.

Don’t get me wrong: The Switch is a great console.

If you’re someone who’s into game collecting, or you think you’d want to snag a big piece of Nintendo history, consider investing in this console now

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